[We conclude that cirrhotic patients with culture-negative, non-neutrocytic ascites and bacterial DNA have a significantly higher level of serum and AF TNF-alpha and higher risk of HRS, SBP and mortality compared to those without bacterial DNA, suggesting that bacterial DNA and TNF-alpha are implicated in these complications of liver cirrhosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE